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13 Cards in this Set
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Airfield Familiarization.
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Airfield familiarization is essential to personnel learning how to perform their duties for their personal safety and the safety of the aircrew.
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Safety Guidelines
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being FOD free, wearing your PPE, being qualified, and keeping your head on a swivel
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Flight Line Safety Equipment
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- Flight deck (steel-toed) safety shoes
- Cranial impact helmet - Protective eye goggles - Leather gloves. |
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Runways
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AC takeoff and landing
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Threshold markings
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parallel stripes on the ends of the runways 12ft x 150 ft, designates landing area
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Overrun area
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paved or unpaved section on the ends of the runways, provide a reasonably effective decceleration area for aborting or overshooting AC
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MA-1 Series Overrun Barrier
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designed to stop tricyle landing gear equipped AC not equipped with tail hook
-always on standby in case of aborted takeoff or emergency overrun landing |
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Emergency shore based recovery equipment
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used during inflight emergency that requires stopping the AC during landing in the shortest distance possible to minimize the chance of injury to pilot or aircrew and dmg to AC
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Taxiways
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paved areas for AC to move between parking aprons, runways and airfield services
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Parking apron
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open paved areas adjacent to hangars, fuel, services often called the flight line. Used for parking, servicing, and loading the AC, connected to runways & taxiways
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Compass cal pad (compass rose)
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paved , magnetically uiet area where AC compass is cal'd
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Runway numbering system
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numbered in relation to their magnetic heading to nearest 10 degrees (250=25)
-If 2 runways: 25L & 25R (left, right) -If 3 runways: 25C (for center) |
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Airfield rotating beacon
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when the airport is below VFR weather conditions day or night, the airport rotating beacon is used to identify the airports location. Rotates clockwise at a constant speed.
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